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Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
heroic individualism and its most prevalent symptoms—restlessness, feeling rushed, low-level angst, scatteredness, exhaustion, burnout, periods of emptiness, a compulsion to keep chasing the next thing, and recurrent longing—all of which are supported by mounting data that we’ll soon examine, describe what so many people report feeling these days.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
What binds these pleas together is an application of “the personal is political” so expanded in scope that, for a certain kind of person, personal problems, anxieties, and dissatisfactions are illegible or illegitimate unless described as political problems. This can be a compromise with a guilty, self-punishing instinct of the self-consciously pri... See more
Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
Everyday life generates feelings of despair and anxiety which become internalized and labeled as depression. In therapy culture, these feelings are traced back to childhood trauma or medicalized as a biochemical disorder located outside the individual’s control. But these frameworks do not account for the socio-political forces of depression, which... See more
Rio Roye — A Public Feeling
